Friday, October 23, 2015

Eileen R. Tabios' first November event will focus on one of her Marsh Hawk Press books, The Light Sang As It Left Your Eyes! She will be presenting a lecture and Q&A in an event open to the public at San Francisco State. click on link below for more information!NOVEMBER EVENTS:

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Prose Pros – Thursday, November 5 (6:30 at SideWalk Café, Avenue A @ 6th Street)—will celebrate publication of a large excerpt from Martha King's full length memoir, Outside/Inside,in the fall issue of “A Public Space” magazine. She says:

"Stories, some sad and some glorious with Paul Blackburn, Dan Rice, Frank O’Hara, Lucia Berlin, G.R. Swenson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Jim Rosenquist and many many others, in the life of Martha and Basil King. On hand to read their own prose –and mine—the redoubtable “Friends of Basil King”: Burt Kimmelman, Vincent Katz, Kimberly Lyons, and Mitch Highfill.

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"Photo by Lynn St. John. (I was 22.) Other photos by Lynn and others are inside.

"I do hope you'll be encouraged to explore the Fall 2015 issue of "A Public Space" for a look at the feature excerpted from my memoir! And drop me a line."

Monday, October 19, 2015

You are invited to Paul Pines' all vets project, Veteran's Voices, which is an off-shoot of his The Theater of War. Paul shares that the project's "vision is that the classic Greek tragedies speak powerfully to contemporary issues of returning vets and the impact of war on the culture. Sophocles was a General and most of the audience at these plays had been touched by war. 'Ajax' may be one of the most powerful statements on it. I am directing a concert reading of the play to be held at Skidmore College on 11/12. " See below for details:

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Lynne Sachs and Sean Hanley's short film, Starfish Aorta Colossus, is based on a poem of the same name in Paolo Javier's newest book, Court of the Dragon. The film has been making the film fest circuit. Here are some details:

October in the United States is Filipino American History Month. In California, over at the American Canyon Public Library, the commemoration includes a book exhibit that includes several of Eileen Tabios' Marsh Hawk Press books! Here are some photos from an October 14 event promoting the celebration, as co-curated by librarian Ricah Quinto and poet-professor Janet Stickmon:

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Mary Mackey and Eileen R. Tabios are part of this year's LitQuake in San Francisco! Click on the links for information on their appearances, both of which will take place from 6- 7 p.m. on Saturday, October 17, 2015:

Poet, visual artist and originator of Performance Poetry John Giorno is joined by peers anda contemporary generation of New York based poets. Giorno’s seminal Dial-A-PoemPoets (1968) in which an audience dialed individual answering machines to hear poems bypoets such as William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and John Cage while his record labeland American artist collective Giorno Poetry Systems broadened the ‘venues’ for poetry torecords, television and radio. Giorno’s poetic use of the technology of the day mirrors thecontemporary generation’s use of language—deploying twitter-like phraseology with thefluid and malleable text of the internet as poems and text migrate from text box to textbox and from page to page—underscoring text and the staging of language as no longer aform fixed by the printed page.

It’s been more than four decades since I graduated from the bankrupt New York Military Academy, which was just sold after a bidding war to a China-based investor on Wednesday. For six years I’d attended this private boarding school in Cornwall-on-Hudson, some 60 miles north of New York City. I’d been exiled up there by my father, a lawyer and institutional fundraiser, who had abandoned his enthusiasm for Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy, an educational scheme directed by spirit voices, and had become convinced by Fred Trump, his business acquaintance, that a military immersion was just what I needed to flush all that spiritual nonsense out of my system.

Before I entered military school I spent the summer at the Atlantic Beach Club on Long Island, where the Trumps were also members. Donald, taking the part of an older brother, taught me daily to play Canasta and other card games. But once the school year began, Donald was already in the upper school, while I was in the junior building. We did pass each other occasionally and would talk between roll calls. Throughout my acquaintance with him, he was always kind, though he never laughed at my jokes.

I learned that my nightly dreams constituted a personal myth, but that Mythology functions as our collective dream. Both divulge meaning through symbols and archetypal imagery and serve as portals for information that enlarges waking consciousness. A key function of dream and myth, personally and collectively, is the integration of experience, without which the psyche would split, exist in what might be compared to a schizoid state, “beside itself.” As Carl Jung might have put it, The Spirit of the Times must be informed by The Spirit of the Depths.